Leo Machala

Leopold "Leo" Machala (14 June 1897-28 May 1918) was a US Army private during World War I who was killed at the Battle of Cantigny.

Biography
Leopold Machala was born in New York City, New York on 14 June 1897, and he was drafted into the US Army at the start of World War I in 1917. Machala was trained as a sharpshooter and deployed to France with the American Expeditionary Forces, and he fought at the Battle of Cantigny in 1918. Machala defended the American trench from several German attacks, and he killed two German troops before being shot and killed by a German sniper.